[LEAPSECS] Crunching Bulletin B numbers (POSIX time)

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <07B22AFC-28DB-43AD-9C5A-75279310A3EA at batten.eu.org>, Ian Batten writes

:



>So what?  If you ignore leap seconds in your isolated/cut-off example, [...]


POSIX timestamps are supposed to be portable, so your isolated machine should
generate timestamps identical to a connected machine, in data from it
are exported to other systems at some point.


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